Eat and Drink

After a visit to Belém Tower remember to take a rest at Pastéis de Belém where you can taste the homonymous cake invented in 1837. Served warm you have to add sugar and cinnamon and you'll try one of the greatest culinary experiences of your life.

Bota Alta is a restourant very special: you can find inside tourists as well as Portugueses. Despite you can find it suggested in many guides it has very honest prices (20 € each satiated).

What about the food? Wonderful and typical. Not to miss the Bacalhau Imperial: fried cod fish with potatoes and onion.

Tapa Tapa is the classic restaurant for tourists. Do not misunderstand, the food is good but in someway not very typical of Catalunya.

It is good if you are in the area of Casa Battlò for lunch time or evening and you need a rest.

"Da Ennio" is a very good pizzeria in Padua. The pizza is neither Napolitan style nor American style since it is thin. There is a huge list of pizzas but only in Italian. Despite this, no doubts that, it deserves a visit!

V. Fabiano e Sebastiano, 51 - Padova - Tel. 049 623734

A nice place where to have a great hamburger just in the centre of Chicago downtown. To try!

134 South Wabash, Chicago - tel. 312 263 4988

Do you want some good Jazz with good food, drinks and nice atmosphere in Chicago? If yes, you can not miss Andy's Jazz Club. It deserves absolutelly one night in Chicago and even more of you love jazz.

You can find detailed performers' list, address and telephone number at his webpage.

You have to know that one of the most popular square where the inhabitants of Padua have their aperitif is Piazza dei Signori. The most popular drink is the "Spritz".

The map below shows where you can take a drink or eat a pizza sit outside in summer time and standing up, still outside, in winter time, as the people of Padua use to do:

You have absolutelly to go there! It is a fish restaurant placed in a pier of Boston adviced by Bostonians.

Belive me when I write you can find very good scalops, mussels, lobsters and much more at price more than reasonable!

A restaurant you must try! Adviced by "Gambero Rosso Low Cost" guide. Right in the centre of downtown serving delicious typical food at a very honest price!

I advice:

The Meat Packing District has quite a few bars and is a bit of a young crowd making the scene and I found it a bit for the younger travellers, but the Spice Market also has a bar so check it out. Pastis is worth checking out if for the crowd alone.